The pioneers; or, The sources of the SusquehannaPutnam, 1852 - 505 páginas |
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appeared Bay of Biscay Benjamin Bess Billy Kirby blood buck Bumppo called canoe Chingachgook colour companion composite order countenance cousin creater cried d'ye dark daughter deer Delaware Dickon dogs Doolittle door duke Edwards Effingham Elizabeth Elnathan exclaimed eyes face father feel feet fire forest gentleman hand Hawk-eye head heard hills Hiram horses Indian interrupted John Jones Jotham Judge Temple lady lake laugh Leather-stocking light Lippet look Louisa Major Hartmann manner Marmaduke matter Miss Temple Mistress Mohegan Monsieur mountain Natty Natty Bumppo never night observed Oliver Oliver Edwards party paused pine reply returned Richard Richard Jones rifle seated seemed seen Sheriff shoot shot side silence sleigh smile snow soon Squire steward stood tell Templeton there's thing thou thought trees turkey turned venison village voice wood-chopper woods young hunter youth
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Página 262 - Several mighty efforts of the wild-cat to extricate herself from the jaws of the dog followed ; but they were fruitless, until the mastiff turned on his back, his lips collapsed and his teeth loosened ; when the short convulsions, and stillness that succeeded, announced the death of poor Brave.
Página 262 - So rapid and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the forest, that its active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff, which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
Página 20 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 304 - ... of the law, where no man was ever known to disturb another. You have driven me, that have lived forty long years of my appointed time in this very spot, from my home and the shelter of my head, lest you should put your wicked feet and wasty ways in my cabin. You've driven me to burn these logs, under which I've eaten and drunk, the first of Heaven's gifts, and the other of the pure springs, for the half of a hundred years, and to mourn the ashes under my feet, as a man would weep and mourn for...
Página 260 - ... through fright or anger. It was most probably the latter, for he was growling in a low key, and occasionally showing his teeth in a manner that would have terrified his mistress, had she not so well known his good qualities. " Brave ! " she said ; " be quiet, Brave ; what do you see, fellow?
Página 260 - ... in his air that ill accorded with the character of a protector. But when, aroused by this cry from Louisa, Miss Temple turned, she saw the dog with his eyes keenly set on some distant object, his head bent near the ground, and his hair actually rising on his body, through fright or anger.
Página 251 - I've been sitting at the foot of the first pitch, and my hounds have run into the caverns behind the sheet of water, they've looked no bigger than so many rabbits. To my judgment, lad, it's the best piece of work that I've met with in the woods; and none know how often the hand of God is seen in the wilderness, but them that rove it for a man's life.
Página 260 - Listen! there are the cries of a child on this mountain! is there a clearing near us? or can some little one have strayed from its parents?" "Such things frequently happen,
Página 261 - Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant destruction. " Let us fly !" exclaimed Elizabeth, grasping the arm of Louisa, whose form yielded like melting snow, and sunk lifeless to the earth.
Página 251 - ... turn a mill, if so useless a thing was wanted in the wilderness. But the hand that made that 'Leap' never made a mill! There the water comes crooking and winding among the rocks, first so slow that a trout...